New Labor Forum
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New Labor Forum Highlights: Dec. 12th, 2016
The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. As all our newsfeeds continue to be filled with an increasingly nightmarish list of Trump cabinet appointments, we wanted to…
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Continuing the Discussion: Puerto Rico & PROMESA
Last Friday, together with the New York City Chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, we gathered with Jose La Luz, Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan and Nelson Denis to discuss H.R. 5278, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), looking at the history of Puerto Rico’s economic crisis and the impact of PROMESA…
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Video: Election Debrief: Reporters’ Roundtable
On November 18th, the Murphy Institute hosted a forum providing an examination of the 2016 electoral season, in which working-class anxiety and rage assumed a central role. A group of prominent journalists including Laura Flanders, Harold Meyerson, Jamilah King and Julio Ricardo Varela assessed what the primaries and the general election say about the current political landscape,…
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New Labor Forum Highlights: Nov. 28th, 2016
The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. Many of us continue to scratch our heads about a Trump electoral victory that only weeks ago seemed pretty improbable.…
